Trump honors 1st responders of congressional baseball attack

WASHINGTON — President Trump presented the Medal of Valor on Thursday to five of the first responders who were injured in a shooting on a congressional baseball practice last month that critically wounded Rep. Steve Scalise.

The three Alexandria, Va., police officers and the two U.S. Capitol police officers received a standing ovation when they entered the East Room at the White House.

Last month, a heavily armed gunman opened fire on a baseball field in Alexandria where a number of Republican lawmakers and their staffers were practicing for an annual charity baseball game against Democrats.

Trump also credited the paramedics, doctors, nurses and surgeons “for saving the lives of the wounded.”

Scalise and four other people were injured on June 14 when a gunman opened fire on a Republican baseball practice in Alexandria.

U.S. Capitol Police and other officers returned fire and killed the gunman.